Formed by the merger of three congregations occupying a Gothic church building.

In 1840 a group of Polish and German Jews established Temple Beth Israel, the third oldest Jewish congregation in Philadelphia. In 1896 the Neziner Congregation was founded for Jewish immigrants arriving from Eastern Europe and Russia. Temple Beth Zion, a Conservative congregation in central Philadelphia, was incorporated in 1946. In 1954 Beth Zion purchased its current building, a Gothic stone church built in 1894. By 1984 the three congregations merged to create Temple Beth Zion – Beth Israel.